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Indian alcohol program CIL Due to lack of communication between
administrative heads, errors in a request for
federal funding, and too little time to
organize, plans for an Indian student
alcoholism program are being slowed,
according to Dwight A. Billedeaux, coor-dinator
of Indian culture and advisor to
Wamb-Di Club.
In July of 1972, Wamb-Di Club applied for
a federal grant to fund an Indian alcoholism
program that woud extend from EMC to
include the Billings area. It would be
available to everyone in need of its services.
The program you'd provide social ac-tivities
unrelated to EMC, bring Indian
alcoholics together to learn from each
other, provide an opportunity to develop
skills that would allow the person to break
his habit, train Indian alcoholic counselors,
help prevent alcoholism through com-munity
presentations, provide the option of
attending college which would allow
alcoholics to avoid returning to the en-vironment
which produced their problem,
provide counseling regarding skills, bring
the Indian community together, provide
employment for former alcoholics and be a
model of a totally Indian run program in
which the administrative and institutional
ties have been cut, according to the request.
The governing Board of Directors would
be selected by Wamb-Di Club and consist of
tour college Indian students, and an Indian
from the Billings area not connected with
the college who would act as Chairman. The
board would be the primary legislative body
of the program, Billedeaux said.
A director and assistant director would be
maintained, as well as an advisory board,
selected by NA'annb-Di Club, including an
executive secretary, receptionist-typist,
coordinator of counselors, four outreach
workers, tour student counselors and an
ombudsman.
Problems arose when some members of
the administration concluded this was the
final proposal, Billedeaux said. The first
request was merely an exploratory devise,
he stressed, and would not in his opinion, be
accepted.
Billedeaux said the main flaws in the
program were requesting "entirely too much
money" ($137,876), employing too many
students, failure to show how cooperation
would be gained with Warm Springs, the
EMC Health Center, Indian Health Service
and the alcoholism center in Sheridan, Wyo.
John Self, director of Institutional
Development, assured the program would
be slowed if not killed, Billedeaux said, by
his letter to the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare, copies of which
were sent to Billedeaux, President Stanley J.
Heywood, EMC Business Manager Ken
Heikes and Dr. Michael Easton, Dean of
Students.
Self's letter stressed that, by law, "the
President of EMC is the only authorized
person to sign on behalf of the college
(Billedeaux signed in this capacity).
Billedeaux signed as director of the project,"
(a position he would hold the first year of
the program's inception). Ken Heikes,
business manager, was named as the person
to be notified should the proposal be
awarded. Reference is made to the effect
that the Wamb-Di Club and EMC would
absorb the cost of planning and staff
training. Implication that the college will
furnish facilities for the program on campus
and used EMC's negotiated percentage for
indirect costs."
Self concluded his letter by stating, "We
think it only fair to alert you, should the
program be funded, that the proposal did
not go through the proper channels, nor did
it have the approval of President Heywood,.
who has the final say on all proposals in-volving
the college." Self could not be
reached to comment further.
Billedeaux said he was aware of the errors
in the request mentioned in Self's letter, but
there was not enough time to do the
research and work required for the final
draft and it was submitted only to probe the
possibility of securing the program. The
request would be worked over and sub-mitted
to President Heywood in the final
stages.
Three days were allotted to draw up a
plan that should involve a year's research
and planning, he said.
President Heywood said the request had
not gone through the proper chahnels, but
he did not think that it would stop the
program's inception as funds would be
available later.
Billedeaux said they had planned to
rework the proposal after Wamb-Di was
organized with the aid of Health, Education
and Welfare representatives from
Washington, D.C. and Denver, but he
received word earlier this week that the
proposal had already passed its "major
hu:dle." He said it was out of his hands now,
and he did not know where it was or what
was happening to it.
The program, if initiated, will be the first
Indian Alcoholic Treatment Program for and
by students in the Northern Rocky
Mountain tribes.
The program would not be tied to the
administration of Eastern Montanan College
and the finances would be administered
through the Wamb-Di Club's Executive
Committee on Alcoholism, thus providing
maximum flexibility and efficiency in the
use of the funds, according to the request
for federal aid.
The center would be for the purpose of
providing a cultural center where the Indian
people can come together in an informal
slow e
setting away from Eastern Montana Colleg
and would be for the purpose of providing
social activities without alcohol, tutoring,
meeting of Indian groups and projects in
preservation of the Indian traditions, ac-cording
to the proposal in the statement of
objectives.
The program was endorsed by W. Michael
Easton, Dean of Students, the Billings area
Indian Health Service, Community
Organization for Drug Abuse Control, Inter-
Tribal Policy Board, Billings area Bureau of
Indian Affairs, Rev. Joachim Strupp of St.
Charles Mission, Montana Indian Com-mission
on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse and
late Mayor Willard Fraser.
A lack of communication is the only
reason the program has been slowed, but
work is still being done and it is hoped the
programwill be accepted, Billedeaux con-cluded.
Athletics score win
on Wednesday vote
On Nov. 2, EMC students went to the polls
to decide the fate of EMC Inter-collegiate
athletics and 33.8% of the student body
decided, a total of 810 people voted, but
only 807 votes counted (three were invalid).
The results of the ballot read as follows:
(percentages first then number of persons
who marked that category) Are you in favor
of state institutional funding to in-tercollegiate
athletics? Yes 84% — 661, No
16% — 128.
If state institutional funding were to be
maintained, are you in favor of maintaining
student aid at: 1. Present allocation (34%)
(maintain present . program) 48%-380. 2.
Reduced allocation (reduced program)
14% — 112. 3. Increased allocation (in-creased
Athletic program) 28%-218. 4. No
level at all (discontinue all EMC In-tercollegiate
Athletics) 10%-78.
Understanding that state institutional
funding is to be discontinued, are you in
favor of maintaining student funding of
athletics at: 1. An increase in student fees to
cover the loss of appropriated money
through state institutional funding? (an
increase of approximately $6.00 per
quarter). 52%-387. 2. Present student
allocation (reduce present Athletic
program) 27% — 198. 3. Reduced student
allocation (will further reduce Athletic
program) 9% — 65. 4. Completely discon-tinue
the student aid (discontinue all EMC
Intercollegiate Athletics). 13%-95.
Eighteen people didn't vote on the first
section of the ballot and 19 neglected the
second category and 62 forgot the last
section.
Indian students
join DC caravan
Five Indian students from EMC have
joined the Trail of Broken Treaties Caravan
to Washington, D.C. after attending an
Indian Education Conference in Seattle.
Two of the students have applied for in-dependent
study credits under the Native
American Studies program.
The purpose of the caravan, organized by
the American Indian Movement, is to make
the government aware of the economic and
social problems of the Indian, and to
present a list of demands and recom-mendations
for the solution of these
problems.
This list includes demands for fulfillment
of all U.S. treaty obligations and protection
of Indian rights to water, minerals, and land.
The Indians will ask the government to
replace the Interior Department's Bureau of
Indian Affairs with a Federal Indian
Commission. They will also ask for a
commitment for increased funds, especially
for higher education.
Caravans, starting from Los Angeles, San
Francisco, and Seattle, have stopped at
Indian reservations and colleges with large
Indian student populations on their way to
Washington in an attempt to recruit more
Indians for the caravan.
An estimated 10,000 Indians will arrive in
Washington, D.C. this week in conjunction
with the caravan.
William A. Rusher, publisher of
National Review and "spokesman for
the conservative side," will speak in
Petro Theatre at 8:15 p.m. on Thur-sday,
Nov. 9.
Rusher's topic will be "What
happened Tuesday—and now what?"
Described as a dynamic conservative,
Rusher is the author of many articles
and has played an active role in
national politics.
Athletics were given the high sign Wednesday, so it looks like more the above. EMC won this game against Minot 24-14 .
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Student participation in a vote that could very well swing the Board
of Regents' decision one way or another on state funding of athletics
came to an unbelievable 33.8 percent. That is, 810 warm bodies out of
2,700.
Unbelievable! Consider that this is one of the largest voter
turnouts at this institution, chew on that and the truth will begin to
hit you. Not enough people really give a damn. In fact the
majority is so far gone that they won't even be insulted that someone
is sitting down at a typewriter and once again questioning their in-telligence.
When I think of the politicians that sought "support" at EMC in
their quest for office, it gives me a pain. When you get right down to
it, they were speaking to the vast minority. The rest, feeling a campus
election involving a sum total of $130,000 too small for them to raise
a pencil at, will undoubtedly feel state or national elections, involving
millions to billions, way out of their league.
I think most everyone enjoys living in a dictatorship. That is, a
dictatorship that allows you to bitch about decisions that are made
by a select minority the minority selected.
The minority at EMC hasn't caught on yet, they still hold elections
to allow the remaining 70 some percent a chance to get a piece of the
action, but actually they're safe, nothing could shake the chronic
apathetics from their battle stations, asses rooted firmly on a chair.
If this is the stuff we have to build colleges on and if colleges are
the producers of raw materials for society's future, may I recommend
reserving a ticket on the next flight to Canada or any other country in
no way connected with the U.S.
"They told me that the sun turned green and I said I didn't know.
They told me that the moon turned blue and I said it didn't show.
They told me that I looked a fool and I said I'd let that go . . . ."
WHY?
Jo Whitcher
LETTER
Constitutional
study time
To Stan Walthall, Executive Vice President:
I know you are busy backing George 1,000
percent, but I wish you would take time out
to read the ASEMC Constitution (i.e., Article
IX Elections, Section 2) and mind your own
elected duties.
Gary Rose
P.S. Perhaps the Student Senate and Stan
should read the ASEMC Constitution
together, just to find out what their duties
are.
Letter
****Here's one for Nixon****
Out of the a
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By Greg Sigrist
Letter
Ike Page Vote from Spechalske
(Untitled due to disinterest)
This letter is being written on Monday,
October 30, prior to the balloting on the
future of athletics at Eastern Montana
College.
I would like to personally thank the
members of the Associated Students of
Eastern Montana College, the Retort staff,
and the students, faculty, and staff who
have made such a diligent effort to explore
the value of and the proper place of
athletics at Eastern Montana College.
Regardless of the outcome of the voting, I
assure you that we in the Department of
Athletics will continue to do our best to
provide our school and community with the
I'm not one of those wonder kids or an
Einstein of politics so therefore I can't
understand why this so-called brilliant
generation could become such avid
disciples of George McGovern. Maybe
they're following another of their crazy fads.
That's the only reason I can conceive of that
they would campaign for him.
I am the original first-grader of politics so
I need it to be carefully explained to me. I
believe if a man can't explain his concepts
to a first-grader, he doesn't really know what
he is talking about and I don't understand
Mr. McGovern.
Nixon doesn't always make things
"perfectly clear" to me either but at least I
can pick up the essentials—for example, the
SALT talks, trips to China and Russia, which
is the first of his accomplishments I could
really respect. The only way to stop war is to
improve relationships between nations and
men. In continuing to improve our relations
Criticism is not, I repeat not, always
meant to be destructive. In this week's
paper we have criticized the Indian factions
on campus. One person asked if we were
going to re-instigate the Indian wars. Hardly,
because we believe that by bringing these
things up, the criticism could help build, not
destroy, the things that Indian students are
trying to accomplish.
But I believe that we should work
together, because everywhere in the United
States, other than the reservations, is a white
man's world. And before anyone can get his
own culture integrated and accepted by a
white-dominated system, he'll have to get
that culture's (white) populace on his side.
After all the first pilgrims were not too
best possible program with the available
funding.
Our priorities have been and will con-tinue
to be to give top priority to those
sports which have the greatest student
support, participant-wise and spectator-wise.
We will likewise continue to endeavor
to give all students an opportunity to
participate in his sport.
We are proud that we currently fund more
sports than any school in the state of
Montana, and will do all in our power to
maintain this position.
Frank H. Spechalske
Director of Athletics
with China and Russia we are taking the first
step in war prevention and peace making.
And the last thing that cinches my vote is
the solid possibility of .a peace pact and
exchange of P.O.W.'s. You McGovernites
will counter, "Yeah, and it only took him
four years to do it. That statement is super
endearing and totally overused. Did it ever
occur to you that he had to wait until the
North Vietnamese were ready to do some
serious negotiating before anything could
be accomplished. Take a baseball game for
example, the opposing team says to your
team, "We'll let you win this game providing
we win the next ten games." Think about it.
As I said before, I'm the world's worst
campaigner (I don't like to kiss strange
babies). All I know is that my vote is with
Nixon. However, if McGovern is elected
some good will come of it; Donna Barker
will get super religious in a damn big hurry!
Donna Barker
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proud to ask for help when they came over.
Now I believe it is time for the Indians also
to ask for help in those fields in which they
have no qualified people. Ask for help, not
to the government but to individuals; put
the plea on a personal basis. Ask, don't
demand. Rarely is anything accomplished
when it is demanded. Action or help =/\
demanded has negative, violent qualities to
it. Action or help asked for has positive
passive qualities to it. Passive meaning not
inaction, but rather that it doesn't turn a
person off.
I'm sure that through Indian and white co-operation
many important things could be
accomplished. We did it for a while a long
time ago; we can do it again.
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Otis, Rimpe, Domme
applauded
After spending a few hours with students
working on various projects, i would like to
express my congratulations and a note of
thanks to Don Otis, Robbie Rimpe and Tom
Domme.
Don Otis is to be commended for the
excellent debate we had on campus bet-ween
the two gubernatorial candidates,
Tom Judge and Ed Smith. It was Don who
was the man behind the scenes making all
arrangements and doing all the leg work to
assure a smooth and enjoyable event.
To Tom Domme and Robbie Rimpe I can
just say thanks and extend a hearty note of
congratulations for the very good job you
two did in spite of the continually arising
obstacles that seemed to prescribe defeat
for your Homecoming. You did an excellent
job against the odds.
Tom Downey
Coordinator of Events
LETTER
CAP expresses
thanks
Thank you for your excellent coverage of
the local effort toward establishing a Local
Housing Authority. Your interest in in-forming
Billings' student age voters about
this important issue are commendable.
The creation of a Local Housing Authority
is supported not only by the Community
Action Program of Billings and Yellowstone
County, but also by the League of Women
Voters of Billings, the Yellowstone Valley
Central Labor Council (AFL-CIO), the
Billings Chamber of Commerce, the
Executive Committee of the Yellowstone
Council of Churches, the Yellowstone
Council of Community Services, the Billings
American Indian Council, the People's
Betterment League, the Concilio Mejicano
Montana, the Latinos Club of Billings, and
the Billings Welfare Rights Organization.
Each of these groups has assisted us in our
attempt to inform all eligible voters about
the Local Housing Authority Referendum. If
any student or faculty member desires more
information about Referendum Number 2,
he: /she may get in touch with one of these
organizations. And, of course, if any
member of the campus community would
like to help with the voter-education
campaign, his services would be most
welcome.
Thank you again for the great article in
The Retort ... and don't forget to vote!
Sincerely,
Barbara Rightmire
Community Relations
Through the Grapevine
By Deanna Hay
Members of a now empty girl's dorm
united a few weeks ago for a "get together"
party. Sure was good to see some of the old
gang again.
Petro Hall was recently "invaded" by a
group of small goblins from the Special
Education building. Hope they got lots of
goodies.
EMC was well represented at the Midway
and various other "haunts" around town on
Halloween. Must have been a lot of
hangovers the next day.
Melcher was seemingly well received by
EMC students Wednesday. Hope they all
decide to vote now.
Jack the Ripper struck the Retort office
recently and "ripped off" some of the copy.
Thanks a lot, fink!
Rimrock Hall sponsored a kegger in honor
of homecoming last week. Sure was fun,
Sliding in the mud and singing 'caroles"
around the campfire.
Contrary to popular
belief, the Retort
is not psychic.
If you have anything
you feel should be
published, contact us.
Any hour.
657-2194
or
657-2553
College rags blamed
for generation gap
Buffalo, N.Y. (CPS)—College newspapers,
according to Richard Lowenthal, may be
one of the reasons for the "generation gap"
concerning the Vietnam War.
Lowenthal, a Buffalo publications
director and co-author of the book,
Voluntary Self-Censorship and the Fact Gap,
cited the inability of American news ser-vices
to inform the public on various
- Moral" issues, including the war, because
of "voluntary self-censorship."
Lowenthal began reseraching voluntary
censorship in the mid-sixties when he
noticed the "Tremendous difference"
between how the "Spectrum," the student
newspaper at the State University of New
York at Buffalo, handled news and how the
news was being handled by the commercial
Buffalo newspapers.
Lowenthal said that his studies revealed
that "most major news services refused to
print any information contrary to the ac-cepted
beliefs of the time."
"On the other hand," he said, "A number
of collegiate press services began to release
stories that were contrary to these beliefs,
and a "fact gap" sprang up between the
college students who read the campus
newspapers and the older members of
society who continued to use other media
as the source of their information."
Lowenthal also said that this "fact gap"
was the reason that Vice President Spiro
Agnew's attacks on the media were suc-cessful
in 1969. The media had allowed the
"fact gap" to develop between themselves
and the public when they failed to give
adequate coverage on the morality of the
war. The gap was widened, he said, when
the media gradually became convinced that
the war was immoral.
"Thus when editors began to write
editorials criticizing the war as immoral and
unjust, the public was unprepared, and
ready to accept Mr. Agnew's attacks."
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Indians organize
Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn. (CPS)—A
group of 500 American Indians has gathered
in this city to launch a major offensive in
Washington, D.C. against the U.S. govern-ment.
The occasion for the gathering is the
national convention of the American Indian
Movement (AIM) and the Festival of Wild
Rice being held in Minneapolis this week.
Most of the regular functions of these
annual gatherings have been dispensed
with, however, to prepare for what may well
be the largest caravan of Indians to be
assembled since Custer rode up the Little
Big Horn.
Caravans from Seattle, San Francisco and
Los Angeles have already arrived in Min-neapolis.
More are expected by the end of
the week when they plan to leave Min-neapolis
and travel to Washington, D.C.,
•meeting other caravans along the way.
The purpose of the offensive, termed by
the Indians as the "Trail of Broken Treaties,"
is to protest government actions concerning
Indians. AIM officials predict that there will!
be 20 thousand Indians at an encampment
in Arlington Park in Washington, D.C.,
during the election week, Nov. 1 through 7.
The Indians are expected to come from the
entire North American continent, from
Alaska to Central America.
According to Vern Bellecourt, national
director of AIM, the Indians will be
protesting 371 broken treaties and "the
longest undeclared war in history."
That war, according to Bellecourt, is the
482-year war that white men have waged
against the Indian people.
"Figure it out from the time Columbus
stepped off the boat," he said.
The Indians will also be protesting against
specific government agencies and policies.
Protests are expected to be launched against
the Department of Interior, and Under
Secretary Harrison Loesh, whom Bellecourt
charges with "gross negligence." The
Department of Interior, Bellecourt pointed
out, is in charge of "national."
Spokesmen from AIM cite a planned $50
million cut in educational services to In-dians,
and as additional $50 million cut is
expected in other services.
"This will mean," Bellecourt said, "that
thousands of Indian college students will
have to drop out of school."
The Indians' plan, according to
Bellecourt, is to ask for an increase of $200
caravan to D.C.
million in Indian services, instead of the
planned $100 million cut.
The U.S. government, they say, is fighting
in Southeast Asia because of treaty
obligations.
It is inconsistent, Bellecourt noted, for the
U.S. government to fight a war against a
"sovereign people" because of treaties when
they won't honor the treaties made "with
sovereign people in their own country."
The U.S., he continued, should "come
home and take care of priorities. They
forced our forefathers to sign those treaties
at rifle point, now they could at least live up
to them."
Indians from Canada and Mexico will also
participate in the Washington gathering,
AIM officials said, in a "pan American quest
for justice."
Bellecourt said that another function of
the mass meeting would be to educate the
American people and government as to the
intrinsic status of the American Indian.
"We still consider ourselves to be the
sovereign landowners of this country," he
said. "People think of Indians as being on
welfare. But it's not the Indians on welfare,
it's the system."
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A Campus Action Team (CAT) on
Curriculum will meet from 3 - 5 p.m.,
Monday, Nov. 6 in the Gallatin room.
President Stanley J. Heywood will attend to
answer questions and comment on the
report made by the team last year. Dr. John
Dodd, chairman of the Special Education
department and chairman of the team,
urged all students to attend
CATs were started last year to do a self-study
and help all members of the campus
"to be more aware of what we are doing and
to concern ourselves with the evolvement of
the institution from what is is now to what
we would like to see it becoming." All
members of the EMC community (students,
faculty, staff) were invited to participate in
one or more teams and 200 became in-volved.
The teams are reconvening this year as
their work is only half-finished. Anyone
interested in participating on a CAT may
contact the convener of the team or teams
listed below to which their contribution
would be greatest and in which their interest
is strongest.
Purposes, Goals and Scope, Rev. John Lee,
259-3962; Curriculum, Dr. John Dodd, 657-
2352; Instruction, Oliver Peterson, 657-2228;
Governance and Organization, Dr. Peggy
Elder, 657-2308; Student Access, Robert Gee,
657-2132; Finance, Jack Hall, 657-2235;
Student Life, Karen Hilger, 657-2700; Quality
and Effectiveness, Dr. Ben Surwill, 657-2157;
Planning and Improvement, Dr. Fred Van
Valkenburg, 657-2317.
A summary of the report that President
Heywood will be commenting on Monday
follows.
It is the general feeling of the curriculum
committee that Eastern Montana College
suffers from a lack of high quality and
diverse programs. Although the solutions
cannot be oversimplified, several obvious
changes were advocated by the committee.
It was felt that there should be greater
departmental control of curriculum, not
only with regard to the major and minor, but
also with the general education
requirements.
The curriculum structure should possess
greater flexibility, and should reflect a
Faculty survey distributed
A committee for the Faculty Senate has
been studying the possibility of a change in
the present grading system at EMC.
A questionaire for faculty members has
been sent out to see just how the instructors
feel about alternative grading systems.
The faculty's questionaire gives them four
relaxing of set curricular patterns. In line
with this, the present general education
requirements should be abolished or at very
least be determined departmentally.
As greater departmental control takes
effect, the curriculum of each student
should become more personalized and
"custom" made. Teacher education should
be further de-emphasized at EMC, and the
market declines. The remaining teacher
education programs should be greatly
improved with respect to quality. One of the
most important aspects of curriculum
concerns diversity. Academic survival of the
college will probably depend upon EMC's
ability and willingness to expand its
diversity.
This expansion should go far beyond the
financial and political limitations now
imposed upon the college. It is, for example,
important for expansion into bachelor
degree programs in nursing, lab and medical
technology, pre-medicine, and mental
health, among others. Associate degree
programs should be discouraged, but
considered if absolutely necessary. The
administration should better serve its
faculty with regard to curriculum
development. There is presently a great
need for release time for curricular
development as well as a more realistic
program for the professional staff to spend
time at other institutions.
choices. The first choice is to keep the
grading system as it is.
The second choice offers a program
where the student's grade point average
would not be hurt if he failed a course. He
would not receive credit for the course but
it would not lower his GPA.
Another alternative system is much the
same as the aforementioned except that the
student would not receive an F at all. He
would not receive credit and it would not
lower his GPA. In this case, the N could not
stand for failure but incomplete, withdrawal
and withdrawal with failing grade as well.
The fourth choice is a system where the
grading system would remain the same
except that a senior student could, after
making application for graduation, petition
the registrar to delete any number of
courses, credits, and grades from his per-manent
record. In other words, he could cut
the courses he got the worst grades in and
have a higher GPA.
These are only choices on a questionaire,
but if there is enough positive response to
the alternative systems, the Faculty Senate
may endorse on of the choices and it would
be presented to the Academic Council.
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Representative Thomas E. Towe
Let The Record Speak For Itself
Representative Tom Towe sponsored or co-sponsored
Legislation in the 1971 Montana Legislature:
the following
1) Strip Mining: To place a tax of 50
cents a ton on all coal strip mined. A law
less offensive to the industry permitting
a tax of about 11 cents per ton was
passed instead. Tom Towe now believes
the tax should be approximately $2 per
ton and if that is too high, the coal should
stay where it is. Also, Tom Towe supports
a moritorium until adequate reclamation
is possible and proven.
2) Citizens' Suits: To allow citizens
the right to sue companies and others
who are guilty of degrading the en-vironment.
Tom Towe was the chief
sponsor of HB 507 which narrowly
missed passage.
3) Student Vote on the Board of
Regents: Tom Towe moved to amend HB
481 to give the student representative to
the Board of Regents a full vote. The
motion failed and the student
representative is only an observer.
4) Student Fees: Tom Towe moved to
amend the education appropriation bill
to remove the increase from student fees
to the general fund so increased costs
would be paid by the state and not the
students. This motion failed.
5) Student Fees: Tom Towe moved to
amend every joint resolution authorizing
the use of student fees for the con-struction
of a building to require a
student vote before any student moneys
could be used. Initially these amend-ments
were all adopted by the House but
were defeated in the Senate.
6) Rights of 18 Year Olds: Tom Towe
was the chief sponsor of HB 453 which
gave full rights to 18 year olds in a
number of areas such as obtaining
licenses to sell insurance, to sell
fireworks, to serve as a director on
corporations, etc. This bill passed and is
now law.
7) Rights of Young People: Tom Towe
was the chief sponsor of HB 452 which
eliminated the age requirements for all
occupations which also have an
educational requirement such as
medicine, law, accounting, etc. This bill
passed and is now law.
8) Juveniles: Tom Towe was the chief
sponsor of HB 499 to increase the
qualifications of Juvenile Probation
Officers. This bill passed and is now law.
9) Juveniles: Tom Towe was the chief
sponsor of HB 497 to create District
Youth Guidance Homes for juveniles who
should not be sent to reform schools.
This is now law.
10) Student Rights: Tom Towe
sponsored a bill to protect a confidential
relationship between a student and his
counsellor. This is now law.
11 ) Student Rights: Tom Towe
sponsored a bill to allow students under
the age of 16 to be released from school
if a judge found education would no
longer be beneficial to them. This is now
law.
12) Tax Reform: Tom Towe sponsored
the Montana Tax Reform Act which
would, among other things, require out of
state corporations to pay their fair share.
13) Individual Rights: Tom Towe
sponsored a bill to protect the rights of
persons accused of being mentally ill and
about to be committed to Warm Springs.
This bill was killed in the Senate after
passing the House but has an excellent
chance in the next session.
14) And many others.
Tom Towe Has A 100% Environmental Voting Record
(Montana Wilderness Society)
Re-elect Tom Towe
DEMOCRAT - LEGISLATURE
417i R Pd. for by Towe for Legislature Club, Ona Price, Sec'y., Billings.
Movie Review
Slaughter-house five
By Mike Blaylock
The world is just a collection of moments strung together at
random. So, at least, is the world of Billy Pilgrim in the movie version
of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughter-house Five.
The movie shows Billy Pilgrim, excellently portrayed by Michael
Sacks, from the beginning of his life, to the end, to the middle, to the
end, etc. Billy Pilgrim is a unique individual, he has the ability to time
trip. He can be at the moment of his death or he can be in World War
II as a young man. He can be billions of miles away on a planet called
Tralthamadore with a sexy starlet or he can be in Dresden as the
beautiful city is bombed into oblivion.
Slaughter-house Five does not make a judgement about Dresden
where 300,000 people died as a result of the bombing. It merely gives
us a view through the eyes of time. We see how beautiful the city was
and the children marked for death. We also see the people who
followed Hitler's madness, believed in him, and committed their own
horrible acts.
We are able to examine the past not only in the light of its time, but
in the light of today and the future.
The point is this: Perhaps the bombing was necessary, but it was
not good. No amount of words can make it good and no amount of
"time" can make it good. It happened and nothing will erase it.
The point is also shown by a spokesman for the planet,
Tralthamadore. He says the universe ends when a young pilot,
somewhere, pushes the wrong button and makes the universe vanish.
Billy asks why, if they can control time, he isn't stopped. The
spokesman answers that they have relived the moment many times
and the pilot always pushes the button.
In some ways it is frightening to think we have so little control over
ourse es. Maybe it's just a joke. But maybe they're right . . . maybe
it wouldn't really be so bad if we knew for sure that we are, we always
have been, and we always will be.
Petro Theater
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November 3, 1972—THE RETORT—Page 5
PAULETTE GODDARD • JACK ORKIE
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Melcher questioned
Congressman John Melcher.
Photo by Greg Sigrist
John Melcher, eastern district
congressman and candidate for re-election,
answered questions in the Yellowstone
Room of the SUB on Wednesday.
Much of the questioning dealt with strip
mining, an issue that's getting a lot of at-tention
in this campaign. Melcher said that
before more strip mining is done we should
have a "strong reclamation bill first." He felt
the present law was inadequate and said he
thought most Montanans weren't satisfied
with it either. He also said it was too early to
tell if it was even possible to reclaim
Montana land.
According to Melcher, there is a bill
pending that states that before strip mining
can begin in an area it must be proven to the
Secretary of Interior that reclamation would
work there. Melcher said that this should be
a base for state legislatures to work from.
"I'm against the draft," he said. He said it
should be used only in time of war or
national emergency. He also said he didn't
like the idea of men getting "clobbered"
when there isn't even a declared war.
He said that the Department of
Agriculture was guilty of tipping off the
large grain exporters about the Russian
wheat sale. He said that the department
suppressed the facts about it which resulted
in farmers' losses, and even went so far as to
mislead farmers by telling them that if there
was a deal, it would not significantly raise
the price for their wheat.
There has been a lot of special attention
paid to whether congressional candidates
are afraid of being identified with George
McGovern. No so with Melcher; not on our
campus anyway. When he was asked if he
supports the candidacy of the Democrats'
presidential contender, he quickly said, "Yes
I do, and I hope all of you do too.
Warren publishes work
Peter Warren, an art teacher at EMC,
recently published some of his poetry and
Free Art in a book called "Storefront:"
Writings From the Lower Sonoran Region."
This book was assembled by Martin Farren,
Clarence Hall, and Joan Benjamin Farren of
the Aware Press.
Fifteen authors are represented in the
book.
Warren, 31, has been teaching at EMC for
six years. Two poems, or as he called them,
Semi Fiction, Semi Poetry, and two Free
Style Art works of his are included in
"Storefront."
SCEC plans
involvement
The Student Council for Exceptional
Children (SCEC) will be setting up a table in
the SUB on Friday, Nov. 3 from 8 a.m. to 4
p.m. to inform the public about what SCEC
is and what it does. Members are urged to
stop and pick up name cards and help out at
the table. •
An election of officers was held at the last
meeting. They are: Paula Nielson —
President, Dolly John—Vice President,
Lynne Price—Secretary, Marcia Pirrie-
Treasurer. A motto was also decided on:
"Take time to share, care and grow with us,
SCEC."
The next meeting will be held at 7 a.m.,
Tuesday, Nov. 8, in the SUB.
Page 6 — THE RETORT—November 3, 1972
"Tom Blankenship"
at the Piano
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The next Attorney General, in giving legal opinions
interpreting Montana's new Constitution, will decide how
the State will operate for years to come. It is time for
the seasoned, tested legal experience that John Sheehy
offers. Stability and ability, that's what's wanted
in the Attorney General's Office.
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Coistrip complex begins
Pie eating and jello tossing were all
part of Homecoming activities.
Photos by Greg Sigrist
Ray Stevens & Megan McDonough
do it at the Homecoming colicert.
Photos by Poole & Sigrist
From the standpoint of a four day drunk,
.Homecoming was a great success. There
were all kinds of activities set up for the
amateurs alchies of EMC; such as, pie-eating
contests (heavy on vanilla extract),
songfests for the few sane students left
around, and a concert featuring Ray Stevens
and Megan McDonough.
Saturday kicked off with Rimrock Hall's
kegger and another Evil Kneval was born,
crashed and staggered away with a boozy
grin.
Then Saturday night was that fantastic
game with Minot State. There was much
tipping of Ye Old Security Bottle, soaked
backsides, and I swear to God they were
playing with four footballs in the second
half of the game. However our noble
'Jackets managed to fight their way through
Minot's defense, mud, rain, and empty
Strawberry Hill Wine bottles to emerge
victorious, 24-14.
Patsy Conlon was crowned Queen and
Ivan Geopferd was crowned King. There was
a general Rah Rah and much toasting, first
to King and Queen, then, to anything in
general.
Actually it was a rather healthful
homecoming. Everyone got lots of exercise
By Ken Ferro
In man's ever greedy grasp for power and
money he has crossed the frontiers of
isolated ecosystems and conquered the life
out of them. In his present surge for more
power man has seen fit to crucify his en-vironment
for the almighty dqllar.
At Coistrip, Montana, a coal strip mining
complex is being constructed by Puget
Sound Power and Light and Montana Power
Companies. The complex consists of two
processing plants having two 500 foot
smoke stacks, a transmission capacity of 700
megawatts and costing approximately
$183,000,000.
This rape of the environment will disturb
about 2,000 acres of land in the process of
building the plant, stripping the non-renewable
resource—coal, constructing a
buried aqueduct, 24 inches in diameter,
from the Yellowstone River to Colstrip and
roads to maintain it, erecting transmission
lines and roads to maintain them, and
through the increase of population.
The overall effect that the complex will
have on the environment is yet un-climbing
up and down the bleachers to go
to the john or to get another bottle and
everybody got their blood-alcohol content
up to par. There is nothing like a good
Homecoming to restore your faith in your
fellow students.
determined, but some general suppositions
can be stated.
(1) There will be increased air pollution.
(2) Increased population in the Colstrip
vicinity. (3) Increased flow of capital goods
in the vicinity of the plant. (4) Change of life
styles and social values as the society is
transformed from agrarian to industrial. (5)
The aesthetic impact the facilities will have
on the ecosystem. (6) The complex will
consume about 3 million tons of coal a year.
(7) 4.2 x 109 gallons of water per year will be
used to process the coal.
•
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Homecoming has heady affect
November 3, 1972—THE RETORT—Page 7
Friday, November 3
7 & 9:30 p.m., Movie, "Straw Dogs," Petro
Theatre.
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Two-bit plays
start next week
Two-Bit Theatre will open Wednesday,
Nov. 9, with the first of four student directed
productions, according to Rod Garritson.
Hello Out There by William Saroyan will
be presented at 8:15 p.m., Nov. 9, and at 12
noon, Nov. 10. Admission is 25 cents per
person for the production which will be held
in B4 in the Annex.
Hello Out There is a tragedy of a young
man confined to jail charged with rape. He
falls in love with the girl who works there
and is rewarded with his own death,
Garritson said, all in a half hour.
The play is directed by Doug Marney and
stars Garritson, Hollie Morgan, Mike
Stratford and Ellen Cosgriffe.
Scene from "What Every Woman
Knows," which was presnted this
week by the EMC Drama Depart-ment.
Photo by Lou Anderson
Consciousness Confab
set for this weekend
A "Consciousness Conference . . . An
Experience in Social Awareness," will be
held on Nov. 3 and 4. The workshop will be
directed to college students, but will be
open also to interested people in the
community. The purpose of the conference
is to make ourselves sensitive to the needs
of people around us, to reflect on the
Gospel message, and to plan what to do
about it. The conference is sponsored by the
Billings Newman Center and the United
Christian Campus Ministry.
Father David Bielefeld from the Office of
Social Development in the Catholic diocese
of Great Falls will be present for the con-ference.
The conference will be held at
Marillac Hall and will be conducted on
Friday, Nov. 3 from 7:00 p.m. until 10:00
p.m. and on Saturday, Nov. 4, from 9:30
a.m. until 4:00 p.m. A one dollar registration
fee will cover the cost of lunch on Saturday.
For further information or for registration,
call Father Lester at the Newman Center
(259-7814) or the Reverend John Lee (259-
3962).
Hernandez first
to get AA Degree
Pedro Hernandez, Jr., a Billings
policeman, is the first person to have earned
and applied for the new Associate Arts
Degree from EMC.
The Associate of Arts degree has been in
the planning for two years and was ap-proved
in July by the Board of Regents.
Since the degree may be given retroactively,
Hernandez applied this fall and received it.
Hernandez plans to continue his
education and earn a Bachelor's Degree in
Psychology.
He said that a degree in Psychology is
great for the field of probation in law en-forcement
and that any degree in hand
"Gives you that much more leverage over
the other guy," on the promotional ladder.
Saturday, November 4
9 a.m. - 6 p.m., Sixth Montana Karate Cham-pionships,
P. E. Bldg.
7 & 9:30 p.m., Movie, "Straw Dogs," Petro
Theatre.
Sunday, November 5
7 & 9:30 p.m., .Movie, "Straw Dogs" Petro
Theatre.
Tuesday, November 7
No Classes — Election Day —Offices Closed.
Wednesday, November 8
12 noon, Sack Lunch Seminar, Dr. Peggy Elder
on "The Future of Sexuality," CEW Staff Lounge.
Thursday, November 9
12 noon - 4 p.m., Alpha Psi Kappa Business
Conference, speaker Thomas Felt, Lib. 231.
8:15 p.m., Lecturer, William Rusher, No Ad-mission
Charge, Petro Theatre.
7:30 p.m., Family Fun Night, No Admission
Charge, P. E. Bldg.
8:15 p.m., Faculty Recital, Gary Beswick,
Violinist, No Admission Charge, Hum. 23.
Friday, November 10
7:30 p.m., Charismatic Conference, No Ad-mission
Charge, In-depth study of spiritual
phenomena sweeping the country, Lib. 148, 152,
231.
9 - 12 p.m., Concert Dance, SUB Ballroom.
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Wanted: Advisor for EMC Sparkgap Society
(HAM radio club). Recreation unlimited. Any
faculty or staff member interested and willing to
help the society in its on-campus activities this
year, please contact Jim Aldrich at 657-2633
(Room 321, Petro Hall).
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The American Legion Youth Scholarship, two,
$500 each (state-wide competition) candidate
must be veteran or veteran's child who has
completed sophomore year of college and plans
to go into child welfare related area. Montana
Cowbelles Scholarship, one at $300, awarded to
single, Montana woman majoring in home ec. or
agriculture related field who is currently a
sophomore. Contact Peggy Elder, McM 201.
On the days of registration 800 students
received bright blue envelopes from the
Welcome Wagon Hostess. The packet carried
good wishes from some Billings businessmen.
Ine give-away lady makes brownie points it you
will turn in the cards, etc. and pick up the
goodies. How 'bout seeing to it? From AW, Team,
LBM, Vaughns, Jubilee, Kwik-way.
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For Sale: One tenor banjo, 4 string
$100, Call 7 - 9 p.m., 245-3520.
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HELP WANTED: Need five men. Phone bet-ween
2 and 5 p.m., 252-4795.
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For Sale: Dressy, fur-trimmed winter coat, 13 jr,
It. brn., $30; navy blue winter maxi coat $30, size
14, 259-9754.
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Notice: Rod McKuen will appear Nov. 29
instead of Nov. 20 as originally scheduled.
— -- —
Class ads are printed free of charge if sub-mitted
to the Retort by Wednesday afternoon at 5
p.m. If mailed, address to Retort, EMC.
Senate slates
VD info clinic On Thursday November 9 at 7 p.m. the
Student Senate is sponsoring a Department
of the Health program on Venereal Diseas.
Speakers will be present and films on VD
will also be shown in the Liberal Arts
Building, Room 148.
This program was arranged by the Student
Senate in conjunction with State Health
Department, whic has allocated $475,000 for
the purpose of informing the public. on
Venereal Disease.
with case.
DEMOCRAT- U.S. SENATE Pol. Adv. Paid for by the Metcalf for Senator Club, Lucille S. Hart, Stevensville, Treasurer
SENATOR LEE METCALF voted for your right to vote at 18 ....your
right to live in a better, more peaceful world. He has backed Work/Study
opportunities, student loans, and research grants.
November 3, 1972—THE RETORT—Page 9
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Indian alcohol program CIL Due to lack of communication between
administrative heads, errors in a request for
federal funding, and too little time to
organize, plans for an Indian student
alcoholism program are being slowed,
according to Dwight A. Billedeaux, coor-dinator
of Indian culture and advisor to
Wamb-Di Club.
In July of 1972, Wamb-Di Club applied for
a federal grant to fund an Indian alcoholism
program that woud extend from EMC to
include the Billings area. It would be
available to everyone in need of its services.
The program you'd provide social ac-tivities
unrelated to EMC, bring Indian
alcoholics together to learn from each
other, provide an opportunity to develop
skills that would allow the person to break
his habit, train Indian alcoholic counselors,
help prevent alcoholism through com-munity
presentations, provide the option of
attending college which would allow
alcoholics to avoid returning to the en-vironment
which produced their problem,
provide counseling regarding skills, bring
the Indian community together, provide
employment for former alcoholics and be a
model of a totally Indian run program in
which the administrative and institutional
ties have been cut, according to the request.
The governing Board of Directors would
be selected by Wamb-Di Club and consist of
tour college Indian students, and an Indian
from the Billings area not connected with
the college who would act as Chairman. The
board would be the primary legislative body
of the program, Billedeaux said.
A director and assistant director would be
maintained, as well as an advisory board,
selected by NA'annb-Di Club, including an
executive secretary, receptionist-typist,
coordinator of counselors, four outreach
workers, tour student counselors and an
ombudsman.
Problems arose when some members of
the administration concluded this was the
final proposal, Billedeaux said. The first
request was merely an exploratory devise,
he stressed, and would not in his opinion, be
accepted.
Billedeaux said the main flaws in the
program were requesting "entirely too much
money" ($137,876), employing too many
students, failure to show how cooperation
would be gained with Warm Springs, the
EMC Health Center, Indian Health Service
and the alcoholism center in Sheridan, Wyo.
John Self, director of Institutional
Development, assured the program would
be slowed if not killed, Billedeaux said, by
his letter to the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare, copies of which
were sent to Billedeaux, President Stanley J.
Heywood, EMC Business Manager Ken
Heikes and Dr. Michael Easton, Dean of
Students.
Self's letter stressed that, by law, "the
President of EMC is the only authorized
person to sign on behalf of the college
(Billedeaux signed in this capacity).
Billedeaux signed as director of the project"
(a position he would hold the first year of
the program's inception). Ken Heikes,
business manager, was named as the person
to be notified should the proposal be
awarded. Reference is made to the effect
that the Wamb-Di Club and EMC would
absorb the cost of planning and staff
training. Implication that the college will
furnish facilities for the program on campus
and used EMC's negotiated percentage for
indirect costs."
Self concluded his letter by stating, "We
think it only fair to alert you, should the
program be funded, that the proposal did
not go through the proper channels, nor did
it have the approval of President Heywood,.
who has the final say on all proposals in-volving
the college." Self could not be
reached to comment further.
Billedeaux said he was aware of the errors
in the request mentioned in Self's letter, but
there was not enough time to do the
research and work required for the final
draft and it was submitted only to probe the
possibility of securing the program. The
request would be worked over and sub-mitted
to President Heywood in the final
stages.
Three days were allotted to draw up a
plan that should involve a year's research
and planning, he said.
President Heywood said the request had
not gone through the proper chahnels, but
he did not think that it would stop the
program's inception as funds would be
available later.
Billedeaux said they had planned to
rework the proposal after Wamb-Di was
organized with the aid of Health, Education
and Welfare representatives from
Washington, D.C. and Denver, but he
received word earlier this week that the
proposal had already passed its "major
hu:dle." He said it was out of his hands now,
and he did not know where it was or what
was happening to it.
The program, if initiated, will be the first
Indian Alcoholic Treatment Program for and
by students in the Northern Rocky
Mountain tribes.
The program would not be tied to the
administration of Eastern Montanan College
and the finances would be administered
through the Wamb-Di Club's Executive
Committee on Alcoholism, thus providing
maximum flexibility and efficiency in the
use of the funds, according to the request
for federal aid.
The center would be for the purpose of
providing a cultural center where the Indian
people can come together in an informal
slow e
setting away from Eastern Montana Colleg
and would be for the purpose of providing
social activities without alcohol, tutoring,
meeting of Indian groups and projects in
preservation of the Indian traditions, ac-cording
to the proposal in the statement of
objectives.
The program was endorsed by W. Michael
Easton, Dean of Students, the Billings area
Indian Health Service, Community
Organization for Drug Abuse Control, Inter-
Tribal Policy Board, Billings area Bureau of
Indian Affairs, Rev. Joachim Strupp of St.
Charles Mission, Montana Indian Com-mission
on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse and
late Mayor Willard Fraser.
A lack of communication is the only
reason the program has been slowed, but
work is still being done and it is hoped the
programwill be accepted, Billedeaux con-cluded.
Athletics score win
on Wednesday vote
On Nov. 2, EMC students went to the polls
to decide the fate of EMC Inter-collegiate
athletics and 33.8% of the student body
decided, a total of 810 people voted, but
only 807 votes counted (three were invalid).
The results of the ballot read as follows:
(percentages first then number of persons
who marked that category) Are you in favor
of state institutional funding to in-tercollegiate
athletics? Yes 84% — 661, No
16% — 128.
If state institutional funding were to be
maintained, are you in favor of maintaining
student aid at: 1. Present allocation (34%)
(maintain present . program) 48%-380. 2.
Reduced allocation (reduced program)
14% — 112. 3. Increased allocation (in-creased
Athletic program) 28%-218. 4. No
level at all (discontinue all EMC In-tercollegiate
Athletics) 10%-78.
Understanding that state institutional
funding is to be discontinued, are you in
favor of maintaining student funding of
athletics at: 1. An increase in student fees to
cover the loss of appropriated money
through state institutional funding? (an
increase of approximately $6.00 per
quarter). 52%-387. 2. Present student
allocation (reduce present Athletic
program) 27% — 198. 3. Reduced student
allocation (will further reduce Athletic
program) 9% — 65. 4. Completely discon-tinue
the student aid (discontinue all EMC
Intercollegiate Athletics). 13%-95.
Eighteen people didn't vote on the first
section of the ballot and 19 neglected the
second category and 62 forgot the last
section.
Indian students
join DC caravan
Five Indian students from EMC have
joined the Trail of Broken Treaties Caravan
to Washington, D.C. after attending an
Indian Education Conference in Seattle.
Two of the students have applied for in-dependent
study credits under the Native
American Studies program.
The purpose of the caravan, organized by
the American Indian Movement, is to make
the government aware of the economic and
social problems of the Indian, and to
present a list of demands and recom-mendations
for the solution of these
problems.
This list includes demands for fulfillment
of all U.S. treaty obligations and protection
of Indian rights to water, minerals, and land.
The Indians will ask the government to
replace the Interior Department's Bureau of
Indian Affairs with a Federal Indian
Commission. They will also ask for a
commitment for increased funds, especially
for higher education.
Caravans, starting from Los Angeles, San
Francisco, and Seattle, have stopped at
Indian reservations and colleges with large
Indian student populations on their way to
Washington in an attempt to recruit more
Indians for the caravan.
An estimated 10,000 Indians will arrive in
Washington, D.C. this week in conjunction
with the caravan.
William A. Rusher, publisher of
National Review and "spokesman for
the conservative side" will speak in
Petro Theatre at 8:15 p.m. on Thur-sday,
Nov. 9.
Rusher's topic will be "What
happened Tuesday—and now what?"
Described as a dynamic conservative,
Rusher is the author of many articles
and has played an active role in
national politics.
Athletics were given the high sign Wednesday, so it looks like more the above. EMC won this game against Minot 24-14 .
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Student participation in a vote that could very well swing the Board
of Regents' decision one way or another on state funding of athletics
came to an unbelievable 33.8 percent. That is, 810 warm bodies out of
2,700.
Unbelievable! Consider that this is one of the largest voter
turnouts at this institution, chew on that and the truth will begin to
hit you. Not enough people really give a damn. In fact the
majority is so far gone that they won't even be insulted that someone
is sitting down at a typewriter and once again questioning their in-telligence.
When I think of the politicians that sought "support" at EMC in
their quest for office, it gives me a pain. When you get right down to
it, they were speaking to the vast minority. The rest, feeling a campus
election involving a sum total of $130,000 too small for them to raise
a pencil at, will undoubtedly feel state or national elections, involving
millions to billions, way out of their league.
I think most everyone enjoys living in a dictatorship. That is, a
dictatorship that allows you to bitch about decisions that are made
by a select minority the minority selected.
The minority at EMC hasn't caught on yet, they still hold elections
to allow the remaining 70 some percent a chance to get a piece of the
action, but actually they're safe, nothing could shake the chronic
apathetics from their battle stations, asses rooted firmly on a chair.
If this is the stuff we have to build colleges on and if colleges are
the producers of raw materials for society's future, may I recommend
reserving a ticket on the next flight to Canada or any other country in
no way connected with the U.S.
"They told me that the sun turned green and I said I didn't know.
They told me that the moon turned blue and I said it didn't show.
They told me that I looked a fool and I said I'd let that go . . . ."
WHY?
Jo Whitcher
LETTER
Constitutional
study time
To Stan Walthall, Executive Vice President:
I know you are busy backing George 1,000
percent, but I wish you would take time out
to read the ASEMC Constitution (i.e., Article
IX Elections, Section 2) and mind your own
elected duties.
Gary Rose
P.S. Perhaps the Student Senate and Stan
should read the ASEMC Constitution
together, just to find out what their duties
are.
Letter
****Here's one for Nixon****
Out of the a
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By Greg Sigrist
Letter
Ike Page Vote from Spechalske
(Untitled due to disinterest)
This letter is being written on Monday,
October 30, prior to the balloting on the
future of athletics at Eastern Montana
College.
I would like to personally thank the
members of the Associated Students of
Eastern Montana College, the Retort staff,
and the students, faculty, and staff who
have made such a diligent effort to explore
the value of and the proper place of
athletics at Eastern Montana College.
Regardless of the outcome of the voting, I
assure you that we in the Department of
Athletics will continue to do our best to
provide our school and community with the
I'm not one of those wonder kids or an
Einstein of politics so therefore I can't
understand why this so-called brilliant
generation could become such avid
disciples of George McGovern. Maybe
they're following another of their crazy fads.
That's the only reason I can conceive of that
they would campaign for him.
I am the original first-grader of politics so
I need it to be carefully explained to me. I
believe if a man can't explain his concepts
to a first-grader, he doesn't really know what
he is talking about and I don't understand
Mr. McGovern.
Nixon doesn't always make things
"perfectly clear" to me either but at least I
can pick up the essentials—for example, the
SALT talks, trips to China and Russia, which
is the first of his accomplishments I could
really respect. The only way to stop war is to
improve relationships between nations and
men. In continuing to improve our relations
Criticism is not, I repeat not, always
meant to be destructive. In this week's
paper we have criticized the Indian factions
on campus. One person asked if we were
going to re-instigate the Indian wars. Hardly,
because we believe that by bringing these
things up, the criticism could help build, not
destroy, the things that Indian students are
trying to accomplish.
But I believe that we should work
together, because everywhere in the United
States, other than the reservations, is a white
man's world. And before anyone can get his
own culture integrated and accepted by a
white-dominated system, he'll have to get
that culture's (white) populace on his side.
After all the first pilgrims were not too
best possible program with the available
funding.
Our priorities have been and will con-tinue
to be to give top priority to those
sports which have the greatest student
support, participant-wise and spectator-wise.
We will likewise continue to endeavor
to give all students an opportunity to
participate in his sport.
We are proud that we currently fund more
sports than any school in the state of
Montana, and will do all in our power to
maintain this position.
Frank H. Spechalske
Director of Athletics
with China and Russia we are taking the first
step in war prevention and peace making.
And the last thing that cinches my vote is
the solid possibility of .a peace pact and
exchange of P.O.W.'s. You McGovernites
will counter, "Yeah, and it only took him
four years to do it. That statement is super
endearing and totally overused. Did it ever
occur to you that he had to wait until the
North Vietnamese were ready to do some
serious negotiating before anything could
be accomplished. Take a baseball game for
example, the opposing team says to your
team, "We'll let you win this game providing
we win the next ten games." Think about it.
As I said before, I'm the world's worst
campaigner (I don't like to kiss strange
babies). All I know is that my vote is with
Nixon. However, if McGovern is elected
some good will come of it; Donna Barker
will get super religious in a damn big hurry!
Donna Barker
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proud to ask for help when they came over.
Now I believe it is time for the Indians also
to ask for help in those fields in which they
have no qualified people. Ask for help, not
to the government but to individuals; put
the plea on a personal basis. Ask, don't
demand. Rarely is anything accomplished
when it is demanded. Action or help =/\
demanded has negative, violent qualities to
it. Action or help asked for has positive
passive qualities to it. Passive meaning not
inaction, but rather that it doesn't turn a
person off.
I'm sure that through Indian and white co-operation
many important things could be
accomplished. We did it for a while a long
time ago; we can do it again.
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After spending a few hours with students
working on various projects, i would like to
express my congratulations and a note of
thanks to Don Otis, Robbie Rimpe and Tom
Domme.
Don Otis is to be commended for the
excellent debate we had on campus bet-ween
the two gubernatorial candidates,
Tom Judge and Ed Smith. It was Don who
was the man behind the scenes making all
arrangements and doing all the leg work to
assure a smooth and enjoyable event.
To Tom Domme and Robbie Rimpe I can
just say thanks and extend a hearty note of
congratulations for the very good job you
two did in spite of the continually arising
obstacles that seemed to prescribe defeat
for your Homecoming. You did an excellent
job against the odds.
Tom Downey
Coordinator of Events
LETTER
CAP expresses
thanks
Thank you for your excellent coverage of
the local effort toward establishing a Local
Housing Authority. Your interest in in-forming
Billings' student age voters about
this important issue are commendable.
The creation of a Local Housing Authority
is supported not only by the Community
Action Program of Billings and Yellowstone
County, but also by the League of Women
Voters of Billings, the Yellowstone Valley
Central Labor Council (AFL-CIO), the
Billings Chamber of Commerce, the
Executive Committee of the Yellowstone
Council of Churches, the Yellowstone
Council of Community Services, the Billings
American Indian Council, the People's
Betterment League, the Concilio Mejicano
Montana, the Latinos Club of Billings, and
the Billings Welfare Rights Organization.
Each of these groups has assisted us in our
attempt to inform all eligible voters about
the Local Housing Authority Referendum. If
any student or faculty member desires more
information about Referendum Number 2,
he: /she may get in touch with one of these
organizations. And, of course, if any
member of the campus community would
like to help with the voter-education
campaign, his services would be most
welcome.
Thank you again for the great article in
The Retort ... and don't forget to vote!
Sincerely,
Barbara Rightmire
Community Relations
Through the Grapevine
By Deanna Hay
Members of a now empty girl's dorm
united a few weeks ago for a "get together"
party. Sure was good to see some of the old
gang again.
Petro Hall was recently "invaded" by a
group of small goblins from the Special
Education building. Hope they got lots of
goodies.
EMC was well represented at the Midway
and various other "haunts" around town on
Halloween. Must have been a lot of
hangovers the next day.
Melcher was seemingly well received by
EMC students Wednesday. Hope they all
decide to vote now.
Jack the Ripper struck the Retort office
recently and "ripped off" some of the copy.
Thanks a lot, fink!
Rimrock Hall sponsored a kegger in honor
of homecoming last week. Sure was fun,
Sliding in the mud and singing 'caroles"
around the campfire.
Contrary to popular
belief, the Retort
is not psychic.
If you have anything
you feel should be
published, contact us.
Any hour.
657-2194
or
657-2553
College rags blamed
for generation gap
Buffalo, N.Y. (CPS)—College newspapers,
according to Richard Lowenthal, may be
one of the reasons for the "generation gap"
concerning the Vietnam War.
Lowenthal, a Buffalo publications
director and co-author of the book,
Voluntary Self-Censorship and the Fact Gap,
cited the inability of American news ser-vices
to inform the public on various
- Moral" issues, including the war, because
of "voluntary self-censorship."
Lowenthal began reseraching voluntary
censorship in the mid-sixties when he
noticed the "Tremendous difference"
between how the "Spectrum" the student
newspaper at the State University of New
York at Buffalo, handled news and how the
news was being handled by the commercial
Buffalo newspapers.
Lowenthal said that his studies revealed
that "most major news services refused to
print any information contrary to the ac-cepted
beliefs of the time."
"On the other hand" he said, "A number
of collegiate press services began to release
stories that were contrary to these beliefs,
and a "fact gap" sprang up between the
college students who read the campus
newspapers and the older members of
society who continued to use other media
as the source of their information."
Lowenthal also said that this "fact gap"
was the reason that Vice President Spiro
Agnew's attacks on the media were suc-cessful
in 1969. The media had allowed the
"fact gap" to develop between themselves
and the public when they failed to give
adequate coverage on the morality of the
war. The gap was widened, he said, when
the media gradually became convinced that
the war was immoral.
"Thus when editors began to write
editorials criticizing the war as immoral and
unjust, the public was unprepared, and
ready to accept Mr. Agnew's attacks."
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Indians organize
Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn. (CPS)—A
group of 500 American Indians has gathered
in this city to launch a major offensive in
Washington, D.C. against the U.S. govern-ment.
The occasion for the gathering is the
national convention of the American Indian
Movement (AIM) and the Festival of Wild
Rice being held in Minneapolis this week.
Most of the regular functions of these
annual gatherings have been dispensed
with, however, to prepare for what may well
be the largest caravan of Indians to be
assembled since Custer rode up the Little
Big Horn.
Caravans from Seattle, San Francisco and
Los Angeles have already arrived in Min-neapolis.
More are expected by the end of
the week when they plan to leave Min-neapolis
and travel to Washington, D.C.,
•meeting other caravans along the way.
The purpose of the offensive, termed by
the Indians as the "Trail of Broken Treaties"
is to protest government actions concerning
Indians. AIM officials predict that there will!
be 20 thousand Indians at an encampment
in Arlington Park in Washington, D.C.,
during the election week, Nov. 1 through 7.
The Indians are expected to come from the
entire North American continent, from
Alaska to Central America.
According to Vern Bellecourt, national
director of AIM, the Indians will be
protesting 371 broken treaties and "the
longest undeclared war in history."
That war, according to Bellecourt, is the
482-year war that white men have waged
against the Indian people.
"Figure it out from the time Columbus
stepped off the boat" he said.
The Indians will also be protesting against
specific government agencies and policies.
Protests are expected to be launched against
the Department of Interior, and Under
Secretary Harrison Loesh, whom Bellecourt
charges with "gross negligence." The
Department of Interior, Bellecourt pointed
out, is in charge of "national."
Spokesmen from AIM cite a planned $50
million cut in educational services to In-dians,
and as additional $50 million cut is
expected in other services.
"This will mean" Bellecourt said, "that
thousands of Indian college students will
have to drop out of school."
The Indians' plan, according to
Bellecourt, is to ask for an increase of $200
caravan to D.C.
million in Indian services, instead of the
planned $100 million cut.
The U.S. government, they say, is fighting
in Southeast Asia because of treaty
obligations.
It is inconsistent, Bellecourt noted, for the
U.S. government to fight a war against a
"sovereign people" because of treaties when
they won't honor the treaties made "with
sovereign people in their own country."
The U.S., he continued, should "come
home and take care of priorities. They
forced our forefathers to sign those treaties
at rifle point, now they could at least live up
to them."
Indians from Canada and Mexico will also
participate in the Washington gathering,
AIM officials said, in a "pan American quest
for justice."
Bellecourt said that another function of
the mass meeting would be to educate the
American people and government as to the
intrinsic status of the American Indian.
"We still consider ourselves to be the
sovereign landowners of this country" he
said. "People think of Indians as being on
welfare. But it's not the Indians on welfare,
it's the system."
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A Campus Action Team (CAT) on
Curriculum will meet from 3 - 5 p.m.,
Monday, Nov. 6 in the Gallatin room.
President Stanley J. Heywood will attend to
answer questions and comment on the
report made by the team last year. Dr. John
Dodd, chairman of the Special Education
department and chairman of the team,
urged all students to attend
CATs were started last year to do a self-study
and help all members of the campus
"to be more aware of what we are doing and
to concern ourselves with the evolvement of
the institution from what is is now to what
we would like to see it becoming." All
members of the EMC community (students,
faculty, staff) were invited to participate in
one or more teams and 200 became in-volved.
The teams are reconvening this year as
their work is only half-finished. Anyone
interested in participating on a CAT may
contact the convener of the team or teams
listed below to which their contribution
would be greatest and in which their interest
is strongest.
Purposes, Goals and Scope, Rev. John Lee,
259-3962; Curriculum, Dr. John Dodd, 657-
2352; Instruction, Oliver Peterson, 657-2228;
Governance and Organization, Dr. Peggy
Elder, 657-2308; Student Access, Robert Gee,
657-2132; Finance, Jack Hall, 657-2235;
Student Life, Karen Hilger, 657-2700; Quality
and Effectiveness, Dr. Ben Surwill, 657-2157;
Planning and Improvement, Dr. Fred Van
Valkenburg, 657-2317.
A summary of the report that President
Heywood will be commenting on Monday
follows.
It is the general feeling of the curriculum
committee that Eastern Montana College
suffers from a lack of high quality and
diverse programs. Although the solutions
cannot be oversimplified, several obvious
changes were advocated by the committee.
It was felt that there should be greater
departmental control of curriculum, not
only with regard to the major and minor, but
also with the general education
requirements.
The curriculum structure should possess
greater flexibility, and should reflect a
Faculty survey distributed
A committee for the Faculty Senate has
been studying the possibility of a change in
the present grading system at EMC.
A questionaire for faculty members has
been sent out to see just how the instructors
feel about alternative grading systems.
The faculty's questionaire gives them four
relaxing of set curricular patterns. In line
with this, the present general education
requirements should be abolished or at very
least be determined departmentally.
As greater departmental control takes
effect, the curriculum of each student
should become more personalized and
"custom" made. Teacher education should
be further de-emphasized at EMC, and the
market declines. The remaining teacher
education programs should be greatly
improved with respect to quality. One of the
most important aspects of curriculum
concerns diversity. Academic survival of the
college will probably depend upon EMC's
ability and willingness to expand its
diversity.
This expansion should go far beyond the
financial and political limitations now
imposed upon the college. It is, for example,
important for expansion into bachelor
degree programs in nursing, lab and medical
technology, pre-medicine, and mental
health, among others. Associate degree
programs should be discouraged, but
considered if absolutely necessary. The
administration should better serve its
faculty with regard to curriculum
development. There is presently a great
need for release time for curricular
development as well as a more realistic
program for the professional staff to spend
time at other institutions.
choices. The first choice is to keep the
grading system as it is.
The second choice offers a program
where the student's grade point average
would not be hurt if he failed a course. He
would not receive credit for the course but
it would not lower his GPA.
Another alternative system is much the
same as the aforementioned except that the
student would not receive an F at all. He
would not receive credit and it would not
lower his GPA. In this case, the N could not
stand for failure but incomplete, withdrawal
and withdrawal with failing grade as well.
The fourth choice is a system where the
grading system would remain the same
except that a senior student could, after
making application for graduation, petition
the registrar to delete any number of
courses, credits, and grades from his per-manent
record. In other words, he could cut
the courses he got the worst grades in and
have a higher GPA.
These are only choices on a questionaire,
but if there is enough positive response to
the alternative systems, the Faculty Senate
may endorse on of the choices and it would
be presented to the Academic Council.
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Let The Record Speak For Itself
Representative Tom Towe sponsored or co-sponsored
Legislation in the 1971 Montana Legislature:
the following
1) Strip Mining: To place a tax of 50
cents a ton on all coal strip mined. A law
less offensive to the industry permitting
a tax of about 11 cents per ton was
passed instead. Tom Towe now believes
the tax should be approximately $2 per
ton and if that is too high, the coal should
stay where it is. Also, Tom Towe supports
a moritorium until adequate reclamation
is possible and proven.
2) Citizens' Suits: To allow citizens
the right to sue companies and others
who are guilty of degrading the en-vironment.
Tom Towe was the chief
sponsor of HB 507 which narrowly
missed passage.
3) Student Vote on the Board of
Regents: Tom Towe moved to amend HB
481 to give the student representative to
the Board of Regents a full vote. The
motion failed and the student
representative is only an observer.
4) Student Fees: Tom Towe moved to
amend the education appropriation bill
to remove the increase from student fees
to the general fund so increased costs
would be paid by the state and not the
students. This motion failed.
5) Student Fees: Tom Towe moved to
amend every joint resolution authorizing
the use of student fees for the con-struction
of a building to require a
student vote before any student moneys
could be used. Initially these amend-ments
were all adopted by the House but
were defeated in the Senate.
6) Rights of 18 Year Olds: Tom Towe
was the chief sponsor of HB 453 which
gave full rights to 18 year olds in a
number of areas such as obtaining
licenses to sell insurance, to sell
fireworks, to serve as a director on
corporations, etc. This bill passed and is
now law.
7) Rights of Young People: Tom Towe
was the chief sponsor of HB 452 which
eliminated the age requirements for all
occupations which also have an
educational requirement such as
medicine, law, accounting, etc. This bill
passed and is now law.
8) Juveniles: Tom Towe was the chief
sponsor of HB 499 to increase the
qualifications of Juvenile Probation
Officers. This bill passed and is now law.
9) Juveniles: Tom Towe was the chief
sponsor of HB 497 to create District
Youth Guidance Homes for juveniles who
should not be sent to reform schools.
This is now law.
10) Student Rights: Tom Towe
sponsored a bill to protect a confidential
relationship between a student and his
counsellor. This is now law.
11 ) Student Rights: Tom Towe
sponsored a bill to allow students under
the age of 16 to be released from school
if a judge found education would no
longer be beneficial to them. This is now
law.
12) Tax Reform: Tom Towe sponsored
the Montana Tax Reform Act which
would, among other things, require out of
state corporations to pay their fair share.
13) Individual Rights: Tom Towe
sponsored a bill to protect the rights of
persons accused of being mentally ill and
about to be committed to Warm Springs.
This bill was killed in the Senate after
passing the House but has an excellent
chance in the next session.
14) And many others.
Tom Towe Has A 100% Environmental Voting Record
(Montana Wilderness Society)
Re-elect Tom Towe
DEMOCRAT - LEGISLATURE
417i R Pd. for by Towe for Legislature Club, Ona Price, Sec'y., Billings.
Movie Review
Slaughter-house five
By Mike Blaylock
The world is just a collection of moments strung together at
random. So, at least, is the world of Billy Pilgrim in the movie version
of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughter-house Five.
The movie shows Billy Pilgrim, excellently portrayed by Michael
Sacks, from the beginning of his life, to the end, to the middle, to the
end, etc. Billy Pilgrim is a unique individual, he has the ability to time
trip. He can be at the moment of his death or he can be in World War
II as a young man. He can be billions of miles away on a planet called
Tralthamadore with a sexy starlet or he can be in Dresden as the
beautiful city is bombed into oblivion.
Slaughter-house Five does not make a judgement about Dresden
where 300,000 people died as a result of the bombing. It merely gives
us a view through the eyes of time. We see how beautiful the city was
and the children marked for death. We also see the people who
followed Hitler's madness, believed in him, and committed their own
horrible acts.
We are able to examine the past not only in the light of its time, but
in the light of today and the future.
The point is this: Perhaps the bombing was necessary, but it was
not good. No amount of words can make it good and no amount of
"time" can make it good. It happened and nothing will erase it.
The point is also shown by a spokesman for the planet,
Tralthamadore. He says the universe ends when a young pilot,
somewhere, pushes the wrong button and makes the universe vanish.
Billy asks why, if they can control time, he isn't stopped. The
spokesman answers that they have relived the moment many times
and the pilot always pushes the button.
In some ways it is frightening to think we have so little control over
ourse es. Maybe it's just a joke. But maybe they're right . . . maybe
it wouldn't really be so bad if we knew for sure that we are, we always
have been, and we always will be.
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Melcher questioned
Congressman John Melcher.
Photo by Greg Sigrist
John Melcher, eastern district
congressman and candidate for re-election,
answered questions in the Yellowstone
Room of the SUB on Wednesday.
Much of the questioning dealt with strip
mining, an issue that's getting a lot of at-tention
in this campaign. Melcher said that
before more strip mining is done we should
have a "strong reclamation bill first." He felt
the present law was inadequate and said he
thought most Montanans weren't satisfied
with it either. He also said it was too early to
tell if it was even possible to reclaim
Montana land.
According to Melcher, there is a bill
pending that states that before strip mining
can begin in an area it must be proven to the
Secretary of Interior that reclamation would
work there. Melcher said that this should be
a base for state legislatures to work from.
"I'm against the draft" he said. He said it
should be used only in time of war or
national emergency. He also said he didn't
like the idea of men getting "clobbered"
when there isn't even a declared war.
He said that the Department of
Agriculture was guilty of tipping off the
large grain exporters about the Russian
wheat sale. He said that the department
suppressed the facts about it which resulted
in farmers' losses, and even went so far as to
mislead farmers by telling them that if there
was a deal, it would not significantly raise
the price for their wheat.
There has been a lot of special attention
paid to whether congressional candidates
are afraid of being identified with George
McGovern. No so with Melcher; not on our
campus anyway. When he was asked if he
supports the candidacy of the Democrats'
presidential contender, he quickly said, "Yes
I do, and I hope all of you do too.
Warren publishes work
Peter Warren, an art teacher at EMC,
recently published some of his poetry and
Free Art in a book called "Storefront:"
Writings From the Lower Sonoran Region."
This book was assembled by Martin Farren,
Clarence Hall, and Joan Benjamin Farren of
the Aware Press.
Fifteen authors are represented in the
book.
Warren, 31, has been teaching at EMC for
six years. Two poems, or as he called them,
Semi Fiction, Semi Poetry, and two Free
Style Art works of his are included in
"Storefront."
SCEC plans
involvement
The Student Council for Exceptional
Children (SCEC) will be setting up a table in
the SUB on Friday, Nov. 3 from 8 a.m. to 4
p.m. to inform the public about what SCEC
is and what it does. Members are urged to
stop and pick up name cards and help out at
the table. •
An election of officers was held at the last
meeting. They are: Paula Nielson —
President, Dolly John—Vice President,
Lynne Price—Secretary, Marcia Pirrie-
Treasurer. A motto was also decided on:
"Take time to share, care and grow with us,
SCEC."
The next meeting will be held at 7 a.m.,
Tuesday, Nov. 8, in the SUB.
Page 6 — THE RETORT—November 3, 1972
"Tom Blankenship"
at the Piano
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Coistrip complex begins
Pie eating and jello tossing were all
part of Homecoming activities.
Photos by Greg Sigrist
Ray Stevens & Megan McDonough
do it at the Homecoming colicert.
Photos by Poole & Sigrist
From the standpoint of a four day drunk,
.Homecoming was a great success. There
were all kinds of activities set up for the
amateurs alchies of EMC; such as, pie-eating
contests (heavy on vanilla extract),
songfests for the few sane students left
around, and a concert featuring Ray Stevens
and Megan McDonough.
Saturday kicked off with Rimrock Hall's
kegger and another Evil Kneval was born,
crashed and staggered away with a boozy
grin.
Then Saturday night was that fantastic
game with Minot State. There was much
tipping of Ye Old Security Bottle, soaked
backsides, and I swear to God they were
playing with four footballs in the second
half of the game. However our noble
'Jackets managed to fight their way through
Minot's defense, mud, rain, and empty
Strawberry Hill Wine bottles to emerge
victorious, 24-14.
Patsy Conlon was crowned Queen and
Ivan Geopferd was crowned King. There was
a general Rah Rah and much toasting, first
to King and Queen, then, to anything in
general.
Actually it was a rather healthful
homecoming. Everyone got lots of exercise
By Ken Ferro
In man's ever greedy grasp for power and
money he has crossed the frontiers of
isolated ecosystems and conquered the life
out of them. In his present surge for more
power man has seen fit to crucify his en-vironment
for the almighty dqllar.
At Coistrip, Montana, a coal strip mining
complex is being constructed by Puget
Sound Power and Light and Montana Power
Companies. The complex consists of two
processing plants having two 500 foot
smoke stacks, a transmission capacity of 700
megawatts and costing approximately
$183,000,000.
This rape of the environment will disturb
about 2,000 acres of land in the process of
building the plant, stripping the non-renewable
resource—coal, constructing a
buried aqueduct, 24 inches in diameter,
from the Yellowstone River to Colstrip and
roads to maintain it, erecting transmission
lines and roads to maintain them, and
through the increase of population.
The overall effect that the complex will
have on the environment is yet un-climbing
up and down the bleachers to go
to the john or to get another bottle and
everybody got their blood-alcohol content
up to par. There is nothing like a good
Homecoming to restore your faith in your
fellow students.
determined, but some general suppositions
can be stated.
(1) There will be increased air pollution.
(2) Increased population in the Colstrip
vicinity. (3) Increased flow of capital goods
in the vicinity of the plant. (4) Change of life
styles and social values as the society is
transformed from agrarian to industrial. (5)
The aesthetic impact the facilities will have
on the ecosystem. (6) The complex will
consume about 3 million tons of coal a year.
(7) 4.2 x 109 gallons of water per year will be
used to process the coal.
•
•
Homecoming has heady affect
November 3, 1972—THE RETORT—Page 7
Friday, November 3
7 & 9:30 p.m., Movie, "Straw Dogs" Petro
Theatre.
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Two-bit plays
start next week
Two-Bit Theatre will open Wednesday,
Nov. 9, with the first of four student directed
productions, according to Rod Garritson.
Hello Out There by William Saroyan will
be presented at 8:15 p.m., Nov. 9, and at 12
noon, Nov. 10. Admission is 25 cents per
person for the production which will be held
in B4 in the Annex.
Hello Out There is a tragedy of a young
man confined to jail charged with rape. He
falls in love with the girl who works there
and is rewarded with his own death,
Garritson said, all in a half hour.
The play is directed by Doug Marney and
stars Garritson, Hollie Morgan, Mike
Stratford and Ellen Cosgriffe.
Scene from "What Every Woman
Knows" which was presnted this
week by the EMC Drama Depart-ment.
Photo by Lou Anderson
Consciousness Confab
set for this weekend
A "Consciousness Conference . . . An
Experience in Social Awareness" will be
held on Nov. 3 and 4. The workshop will be
directed to college students, but will be
open also to interested people in the
community. The purpose of the conference
is to make ourselves sensitive to the needs
of people around us, to reflect on the
Gospel message, and to plan what to do
about it. The conference is sponsored by the
Billings Newman Center and the United
Christian Campus Ministry.
Father David Bielefeld from the Office of
Social Development in the Catholic diocese
of Great Falls will be present for the con-ference.
The conference will be held at
Marillac Hall and will be conducted on
Friday, Nov. 3 from 7:00 p.m. until 10:00
p.m. and on Saturday, Nov. 4, from 9:30
a.m. until 4:00 p.m. A one dollar registration
fee will cover the cost of lunch on Saturday.
For further information or for registration,
call Father Lester at the Newman Center
(259-7814) or the Reverend John Lee (259-
3962).
Hernandez first
to get AA Degree
Pedro Hernandez, Jr., a Billings
policeman, is the first person to have earned
and applied for the new Associate Arts
Degree from EMC.
The Associate of Arts degree has been in
the planning for two years and was ap-proved
in July by the Board of Regents.
Since the degree may be given retroactively,
Hernandez applied this fall and received it.
Hernandez plans to continue his
education and earn a Bachelor's Degree in
Psychology.
He said that a degree in Psychology is
great for the field of probation in law en-forcement
and that any degree in hand
"Gives you that much more leverage over
the other guy" on the promotional ladder.
Saturday, November 4
9 a.m. - 6 p.m., Sixth Montana Karate Cham-pionships,
P. E. Bldg.
7 & 9:30 p.m., Movie, "Straw Dogs" Petro
Theatre.
Sunday, November 5
7 & 9:30 p.m., .Movie, "Straw Dogs" Petro
Theatre.
Tuesday, November 7
No Classes — Election Day —Offices Closed.
Wednesday, November 8
12 noon, Sack Lunch Seminar, Dr. Peggy Elder
on "The Future of Sexuality" CEW Staff Lounge.
Thursday, November 9
12 noon - 4 p.m., Alpha Psi Kappa Business
Conference, speaker Thomas Felt, Lib. 231.
8:15 p.m., Lecturer, William Rusher, No Ad-mission
Charge, Petro Theatre.
7:30 p.m., Family Fun Night, No Admission
Charge, P. E. Bldg.
8:15 p.m., Faculty Recital, Gary Beswick,
Violinist, No Admission Charge, Hum. 23.
Friday, November 10
7:30 p.m., Charismatic Conference, No Ad-mission
Charge, In-depth study of spiritual
phenomena sweeping the country, Lib. 148, 152,
231.
9 - 12 p.m., Concert Dance, SUB Ballroom.
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Wanted: Advisor for EMC Sparkgap Society
(HAM radio club). Recreation unlimited. Any
faculty or staff member interested and willing to
help the society in its on-campus activities this
year, please contact Jim Aldrich at 657-2633
(Room 321, Petro Hall).
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The American Legion Youth Scholarship, two,
$500 each (state-wide competition) candidate
must be veteran or veteran's child who has
completed sophomore year of college and plans
to go into child welfare related area. Montana
Cowbelles Scholarship, one at $300, awarded to
single, Montana woman majoring in home ec. or
agriculture related field who is currently a
sophomore. Contact Peggy Elder, McM 201.
On the days of registration 800 students
received bright blue envelopes from the
Welcome Wagon Hostess. The packet carried
good wishes from some Billings businessmen.
Ine give-away lady makes brownie points it you
will turn in the cards, etc. and pick up the
goodies. How 'bout seeing to it? From AW, Team,
LBM, Vaughns, Jubilee, Kwik-way.
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For Sale: One tenor banjo, 4 string
$100, Call 7 - 9 p.m., 245-3520.
— — --
HELP WANTED: Need five men. Phone bet-ween
2 and 5 p.m., 252-4795.
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For Sale: Dressy, fur-trimmed winter coat, 13 jr,
It. brn., $30; navy blue winter maxi coat $30, size
14, 259-9754.
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Notice: Rod McKuen will appear Nov. 29
instead of Nov. 20 as originally scheduled.
— -- —
Class ads are printed free of charge if sub-mitted
to the Retort by Wednesday afternoon at 5
p.m. If mailed, address to Retort, EMC.
Senate slates
VD info clinic On Thursday November 9 at 7 p.m. the
Student Senate is sponsoring a Department
of the Health program on Venereal Diseas.
Speakers will be present and films on VD
will also be shown in the Liberal Arts
Building, Room 148.
This program was arranged by the Student
Senate in conjunction with State Health
Department, whic has allocated $475,000 for
the purpose of informing the public. on
Venereal Disease.
with case.
DEMOCRAT- U.S. SENATE Pol. Adv. Paid for by the Metcalf for Senator Club, Lucille S. Hart, Stevensville, Treasurer
SENATOR LEE METCALF voted for your right to vote at 18 ....your
right to live in a better, more peaceful world. He has backed Work/Study
opportunities, student loans, and research grants.
November 3, 1972—THE RETORT—Page 9
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